Typical Summer Fare

Rating: 6/10 (15 August 2005)

Yes, this is typical summer fare and typical Michael Bay movie-making. You know what you're going to get; big explosions, beautiful people, chases, spectacular bits of scenery flying all over the place and the girl and the boy getting together in the end. This is a tale of clones being produced by a facility who find out that the lottery prize which they all want to win is a poison chalice. They escape and the hunt for them begins. Cue all manner of mayhem from train wheels to big rocket bikes. The acting is fine as there's not really a whole lot needed. Steve Buscemi makes a welcome appearance but alas not for too long. There's not much time to take a breath here and it all rolls along predictably enough to the inevitable climax and over-the-top final scene, where something more subtle would have worked better (but that's not a word that's in this director's vocabulary). A blockbusting movie that does quite bust the blocks but does at least leave them dented.